This is exactly how apartment buildings are built. There are tons of examples of copy-paste development, even miles apart, in my area. Regarding the article, p

This is exactly how apartment buildings are built. There are tons of examples of copy-paste development, even miles apart, in my area. Regarding the article, pre-fabricated buildings have been a thing for decades. For example in my area Quadrant Homes contracts out framing to a local builder that assembles interior and exterior walls in a factory on a gantry and then ships the entire wall package out to the house to be assembled.